Download or read book Introduction to Management Science with Spreadsheets written by William J. Stevenson and published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines the market leading writing and presentation skills of Bill Stevenson with integrated, thorough, Excel modeling from Ceyhun Ozgur. Professor Ozgur teaches Management Science, Operations, and Statistics using Excel, at the undergrad and MBA levels at Valparaiso University --and Ozgur developed and tested all examples, problems and cases with his students. The authors have written this text for students who have no significant mathematics training and only the most elementary experience with Excel.
Download or read book Algorithms written by Sanjoy Dasgupta and published by Tata McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2011 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matching Supply with Demand written by Gérard Cachon and published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matching supply with demand, this book is suitable for operations management MBAs. It demands rigorous analysis on the part of students without requiring consistent use of sophisticated mathematical modeling to perform it.
Download or read book Integrated Methods for Optimization written by John N. Hooker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-13 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Integrated Methods for Optimization was published in January 2007. Because the book covers a rapidly developing field, the time is right for a second edition. The book provides a unified treatment of optimization methods. It brings ideas from mathematical programming (MP), constraint programming (CP), and global optimization (GO)into a single volume. There is no reason these must be learned as separate fields, as they normally are, and there are three reasons they should be studied together. (1) There is much in common among them intellectually, and to a large degree they can be understood as special cases of a single underlying solution technology. (2) A growing literature reports how they can be profitably integrated to formulate and solve a wide range of problems. (3) Several software packages now incorporate techniques from two or more of these fields. The book provides a unique resource for graduate students and practitioners who want a well-rounded background in optimization methods within a single course of study. Engineering students are a particularly large potential audience, because engineering optimization problems often benefit from a combined approach—particularly where design, scheduling, or logistics are involved. The text is also of value to those studying operations research, because their educational programs rarely cover CP, and to those studying computer science and artificial intelligence (AI), because their curric ula typically omit MP and GO. The text is also useful for practitioners in any of these areas who want to learn about another, because it provides a more concise and accessible treatment than other texts. The book can cover so wide a range of material because it focuses on ideas that arerelevant to the methods used in general-purpose optimization and constraint solvers. The book focuses on ideas behind the methods that have proved useful in general-purpose optimization and constraint solvers, as well as integrated solvers of the present and foreseeable future. The second edition updates results in this area and includes several major new topics: Background material in linear, nonlinear, and dynamic programming. Network flow theory, due to its importance in filtering algorithms. A chapter on generalized duality theory that more explicitly develops a unifying primal-dual algorithmic structure for optimization methods. An extensive survey of search methods from both MP and AI, using the primal-dual framework as an organizing principle. Coverage of several additional global constraints used in CP solvers. The book continues to focus on exact as opposed to heuristic methods. It is possible to bring heuristic methods into the unifying scheme described in the book, and the new edition will retain the brief discussion of how this might be done.
Download or read book Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction written by Edward Tsang and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction discusses the foundations of constraint satisfaction and presents algorithms for solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Most of the algorithms described in this book are explained in pseudo code, and sometimes illustrated with Prolog codes (to illustrate how the algorithms could be implemented). Comprised of 10 chapters, this volume begins by defining the standard CSP and the important concepts around it and presenting examples and applications of CSPs. The reader is then introduced to the main features of CSPs and CSP solving techniques (problem reduction, searching, and solution synthesis); some of the most important concepts related to CSP solving; and problem reduction algorithms. Subsequent chapters deal with basic control strategies of searching which are relevant to CSP solving; the significance of ordering the variables, values and compatibility checking in searching; specialized search techniques which gain their efficiency by exploiting problem-specific features; and stochastic search approaches (including hill climbing and connectionist approaches) for CSP solving. The book also considers how solutions can be synthesized rather than searched for before concluding with an analysis of optimization in CSPs. This monograph can be used as a reference by artificial intelligence (AI) researchers or as a textbook by students on advanced AI courses, and should also help knowledge engineers apply existing techniques to solve CSPs or problems which embed CSPs.
Download or read book Modeling Analysis and Optimization of Process and Energy Systems written by F. Carl Knopf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy costs impact the profitability of virtually all industrial processes. Stressing how plants use power, and how that power is actually generated, this book provides a clear and simple way to understand the energy usage in various processes, as well as methods for optimizing these processes using practical hands-on simulations and a unique approach that details solved problems utilizing actual plant data. Invaluable information offers a complete energy-saving approach essential for both the chemical and mechanical engineering curricula, as well as for practicing engineers.
Download or read book Workbook for Gerver Sgroi s Financial Algebra written by Robert K. Gerver and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining algebraic and graphical approaches with practical business and personal finance applications, South-Western's Financial Algebra motivates high school students to explore algebraic thinking patterns and functions in a financial context. Financial Algebra will help your students achieve success by offering an applications based learning approach incorporating Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry topics. Authors Robert Gerver and Richard Sgroi have spent their 25+ year-careers teaching students of all ability levels and they have found the most success when math is connected to the real world. Financial Algebra encourages students to be actively involved in applying mathematical ideas to their everyday lives -- credit, banking insurance, the stock market, independent living and more! - Publisher.
Download or read book Learning SAS by Example written by Ron Cody and published by SAS Institute. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to program SAS by example! Learning SAS by Example, A Programmer’s Guide, Second Edition, teaches SAS programming from very basic concepts to more advanced topics. Because most programmers prefer examples rather than reference-type syntax, this book uses short examples to explain each topic. The second edition has brought this classic book on SAS programming up to the latest SAS version, with new chapters that cover topics such as PROC SGPLOT and Perl regular expressions. This book belongs on the shelf (or e-book reader) of anyone who programs in SAS, from those with little programming experience who want to learn SAS to intermediate and even advanced SAS programmers who want to learn new techniques or identify new ways to accomplish existing tasks. In an instructive and conversational tone, author Ron Cody clearly explains each programming technique and then illustrates it with one or more real-life examples, followed by a detailed description of how the program works. The text is divided into four major sections: Getting Started, DATA Step Processing, Presenting and Summarizing Your Data, and Advanced Topics. Subjects addressed include Reading data from external sources Learning details of DATA step programming Subsetting and combining SAS data sets Understanding SAS functions and working with arrays Creating reports with PROC REPORT and PROC TABULATE Getting started with the SAS macro language Leveraging PROC SQL Generating high-quality graphics Using advanced features of user-defined formats and informats Restructuring SAS data sets Working with multiple observations per subject Getting started with Perl regular expressions You can test your knowledge and hone your skills by solving the problems at the end of each chapter.
Download or read book Using Additional Information in Streaming Algorithms written by Raffael Buff and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streaming problems are algorithmic problems that are mainly characterized by their massive input streams. Because of these data streams, the algorithms for these problems are forced to be space-efficient, as the input stream length generally exceeds the available storage. The goal of this study is to analyze the impact of additional information (more specifically, a hypothesis of the solution) on the algorithmic space complexities of several streaming problems. To this end, different streaming problems are analyzed and compared. The two problems “most frequent item” and “number of distinct items”, with many configurations of different result accuracies and probabilities, are deeply studied. Both lower and upper bounds for the space and time complexity for deterministic and probabilistic environments are analyzed with respect to possible improvements due to additional information. The general solution search problem is compared to the decision problem where a solution hypothesis has to be satisfied.
Download or read book The Service Routing Problem written by Nadine Holtvogt and published by Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence written by Stuart Russell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. Number one in its field, this textbook is ideal for one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence.
Download or read book A Guide to Algorithm Design written by Anne Benoit and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a complementary perspective to standard books on algorithms, A Guide to Algorithm Design: Paradigms, Methods, and Complexity Analysis provides a roadmap for readers to determine the difficulty of an algorithmic problem by finding an optimal solution or proving complexity results. It gives a practical treatment of algorithmic complexity and guides readers in solving algorithmic problems. Divided into three parts, the book offers a comprehensive set of problems with solutions as well as in-depth case studies that demonstrate how to assess the complexity of a new problem. Part I helps readers understand the main design principles and design efficient algorithms. Part II covers polynomial reductions from NP-complete problems and approaches that go beyond NP-completeness. Part III supplies readers with tools and techniques to evaluate problem complexity, including how to determine which instances are polynomial and which are NP-hard. Drawing on the authors’ classroom-tested material, this text takes readers step by step through the concepts and methods for analyzing algorithmic complexity. Through many problems and detailed examples, readers can investigate polynomial-time algorithms and NP-completeness and beyond.
Download or read book Computers in Chess written by M. M. Botvinnik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much water has flowed over the dam since this book went to press in Moscow. One might expect that PIONEER would have made substantial advances-unfortunately it has not. There are reasons: the difficulty of the problem, the disenchantment of the mathematicians (because of the delays and drawing out of the work), and principally the insufficiency and some times complete lack of machine time. The general method used by PIONEER to solve complex multidimen sional search problems had already been formulated at that time. It was supposed that the successful completion of the chess program PIONEER-l would provide a sufficient validation for the method. We did not succeed in completing it. But, unexpectedly, PIONEER's method obtained a different kind of validation. Since our group of mathematicians works at the Institute for Electroen ergy, we were invited to solve some energy-related problems and were assigned the task of constructing a program that would plan the recondi tioning of the equipment in power stations-initially for one month. Until then, the technicians had been preparing such plans without the aid of computers. Although the chess program was not complete even after ten years, the program PIONEER-2 for computing the monthly repair schedule for the Interconnected Power System of Russian Central was completed in a few months. In mid-October of 1980 a medium-speed computer constructed the plan in 40 seconds. When, at the end of the month, the mathematician A.
Download or read book Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems written by Nacima Labadie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems. Several implementations are given as illustrative examples, along with applications to several typical vehicle routing problems. As a first step, a general presentation intends to make the reader more familiar with the related field of logistics and combinatorial optimization. This preamble is completed with a description of significant heuristic methods classically used to provide feasible solutions quickly, and local improvement moves widely used to search for enhanced solutions. The overview of these fundamentals allows appreciating the core of the work devoted to an analysis of metaheuristic methods for vehicle routing problems. Those methods are exposed according to their feature of working either on a sequence of single solutions, or on a set of solutions, or even by hybridizing metaheuristic approaches with others kind of methods.
Download or read book ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH PYTHON written by Prof. MUTTAPPA M MANTUR and published by Deccan International Academic Publisher. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Artificial Intelligence with Python" book begins by teaching the basic ideas and ideas of AI, giving beginners a strong foundation. It strikes a mix between theory and practical application, covering a variety of AI-related topics such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, making it appropriate for both beginning and intermediate practitioners. It provides users with the resources and information needed to design, create, and implement AI-powered solutions using Python, one of the industry's most well-liked programming languages.
Download or read book Search Methodologies written by Edmund K. Burke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tutorial survey of the methodologies that are at the confluence of several fields: Computer Science, Mathematics and Operations Research. It provides a carefully structured and integrated treatment of the major technologies in optimization and search methodology. The chapter authors are drawn from across Computer Science and Operations Research and include some of the world’s leading authorities in their field. It can be used as a textbook or a reference book to learn and apply these methodologies to a wide range of today’s problems.
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